Category: Workplace

Printing workplaces

Cosco Printing

Linotype Model 8
Edward operating a Model 8 Linotype in June 1988, towards the end of the hot type days at Cosco Printing in North Carolina (US).

Photos taken in 1988 during the last days of hot type at the North Carolina (US) company. Sent in by Bob Scurry.

Edward Farnell (1915-1998)

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METAL TYPE is the place for printers, typesetters and newspaper workers, who fondly remember those letterpress days, to come and reminisce.

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